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British scientist (1935–2022)
Andrew David McLachlan FRS
[1] (25 January 1935 – 8 July 2022) was a British scientist who worked in the areas of
theoretical chemistry and
molecular biology .
McLachlan studied mathematics at
Cambridge
[2] before moving in to theoretical chemistry where his research was concerned with
electron spin .
[3] Following time at Cambridge and
Caltech , he made the move in to molecular biology at the
MRC LMB in 1967.
[4] There he initially worked with
Max Perutz on
haemoglobin , before moving on to studying the sequence
[5] and structure
[6] of other protein types (such as muscle protein tropomyosin
[7]
[8] ). He retired in 2006.
McLachlan was elected
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989.
[2]
^ Stone, A. J.; Stewart, M.; Eisenberg, D. S.; Crowther, R. A. (2023).
"Andrew David McLachlan. 25 January 1935—8 July 2022" . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 75 .
doi :
10.1098/rsbm.2023.0014 .
S2CID
260900565 .
^
a
b Trinity College Cambridge (19 July 2022).
"Tributes paid to Dr Andrew McLachlan" .
^ McLachlan, A.D. (1958).
"Hyperconjugation in the electron resonance spectra of free radicals" . Molecular Physics . 1 (3): 233–240.
Bibcode :
1958MolPh...1..233M .
doi :
10.1080/00268975800100291 .
^
"LMB News: Andrew McLachlan (1935 – 2022)" . 15 July 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023 .
^ McLachlan, A.D. (1971).
"Tests for comparing related amino-acid sequences. Cytochrome c and cytochrome c551" . Journal of Molecular Biology . 61 (2): 409–424.
doi :
10.1016/0022-2836(71)90390-1 .
PMID
5167087 .
^ McLachlan, A.D. (1972).
"Repeating sequences and gene duplication in proteins" . Journal of Molecular Biology . 64 (2): 417–437.
doi :
10.1016/0022-2836(72)90508-6 .
PMID
5023183 .
^ STEWART, MURRAY; MCLACHLAN, A. D. (1975).
"Fourteen actin-binding sites on tropomyosin?" . Nature . 257 (5524): 331–333.
Bibcode :
1975Natur.257..331S .
doi :
10.1038/257331a0 .
PMID
1161036 .
S2CID
4222459 .
^ McLachlan, A.D.; Stewart, Murray; Smillie, L.B. (1975).
"Sequence repeats in α-tropomyosin" . Journal of Molecular Biology . 98 (2): 281–291.
doi :
10.1016/S0022-2836(75)80118-5 .
PMID
1195388 .